Shane Parker celebrates 200 games with a tenth career goal

Former captain of the Fremantle Dockers Ben Allen and current captain Peter Bell both say Shane Parker is one of the best players to have represented the club. High praise indeed.

Shane is not as sure. He has a reputation of being somewhat reclusive and doesn't try to attract the media spotlight. "I like my privacy" says Shane, "What people want from you is to go out on the field and perform."

Talking to the media has never been his strength, Shane readily admits, but he hopes and thinks he has got better over the years.

Parker joined the Fremantle Dockers on day one of the new club and remembers the facilities being somewhat scattered. Not ideal for a fledgling club. He says this year's list is the best it's ever looked and he thinks the team is performing better overall.

Before joining the Dockers, Shane rather ashamedly admits to being a keen follower of Collingwood, for which he blames his father - a Victorian.

On the coaches he's played for Shane says Gerard Neesham was a very tactical person and introduced some of the changes which are now part of the game. Damian Drum, he says was obviously a very hard player and certainly coached that way and Chris Connolly he believes was a very skilful player and thought about his game a lot and is the same as coach.

When asked about his toughest opponent, Shane found it hard to separate Jeff Farmer, Tony Modra, Chris Grant and Matthew Richardson.

Trained as a mechanical engineer and a keen (though not that great) golfer, Shane doesn't know what his future holds although he hopes there is more finals footy in there somewhere.

Shane says he probably won't fully appreciate what he's achieved in his 200 games until he's finished playing.